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Opera Director Joe Hill-Gibbins: How I Got an Oedipus Complex (The Guardian)
Joe Hill-Gibbins shares his initial hesitancies regarding the infamous Oedipus tale and how his perspective shifted throughout the process of directing the opera.
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Jenny Ogilvie on Becoming the Movement Director for “Greek” (The Herald)
“You are there to make the physical life of the show as vivid and committed and daring and imaginative as it can be.” — Jenny Ogilvie, Greek’s Movement Director, on how her work as an actress informed her transition from being on the stage to behind it.
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The country’s in a state of plague”: Greek and the Tragedy of Thatcherite Individualism (BAM Blog)Coming Soon!
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Opera Director Joe Hill-Gibbins: How I Got an Oedipus Complex (The Guardian)
Joe Hill-Gibbins shares his initial hesitancies regarding the infamous Oedipus tale and how his perspective shifted throughout the process of directing the opera.
Article
Jenny Ogilvie on Becoming the Movement Director for “Greek” (The Herald)
“You are there to make the physical life of the show as vivid and committed and daring and imaginative as it can be.” — Jenny Ogilvie, Greek’s Movement Director, on how her work as an actress informed her transition from being on the stage to behind it.
Writer and performance artist Chris Tyler unpacks how Margaret Thatcher’s political agenda, which created an environment of social peril in the UK in the 1980s, informs the bleakness of Greek.
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Alex Otterburn on Greek: BAM 2018 Next Wave Festival (YouTube)
“Greek was written at a time of political strife and more so than ever we’re back to those times.” — Alex Otterburn, who plays Eddy or Oedipus in Greek, connects the opera’s apocalyptic 1980s London setting to our current politically and socially unstable world.
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What is Greek?: BAM 2018 Next Wave Festival (YouTube)
Soprano Susan Bollock and Mezzo-Soprano Allison Cook detail the demands and joys of performing in such a bold, brash reimagining of a classic tale.
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London Voices, “Greek” style (Eidolon)Emily Pillinger, a Classics lecturer at Kings College London, recounts her childhood experience with Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Greek and discusses how the work still resonates today.
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Dreadful Knowledge (BAM Blog)In preparation for Mark Anthony-Turnage's contemporary update of the classic Oedipus tale, see illustrator Nathan Gelgud's primer for the infamous story. In this post for the BAMblog, he breaks down pivotal themes and moments for audiences both familiar and new to this thought-provoking tale.
Watch & Listen
Alex Otterburn on Greek: BAM 2018 Next Wave Festival (YouTube)
“Greek was written at a time of political strife and more so than ever we’re back to those times.” — Alex Otterburn, who plays Eddy or Oedipus in Greek, connects the opera’s apocalyptic 1980s London setting to our current politically and socially unstable world.
Video
What is Greek?: BAM 2018 Next Wave Festival (YouTube)
Soprano Susan Bollock and Mezzo-Soprano Allison Cook detail the demands and joys of performing in such a bold, brash reimagining of a classic tale.
Now your turn...
© 2018 Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc. All rights reserved.